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TIL Britons eat 97% of the world’s baked beans

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WlE4 TIL that the cast of the 1979 science fiction horror film ‘Alien’ was never told about the chestburster scene in order to capture the authentic fear of the actors
BkjL TIL Dwayne Johnson was set to star in a movie about Hawaiian warrior-king Kamehameha, but was pulled because he’s Samoan, with the producer saying, “It would be a great taboo for the part to go to a nationality that was a fierce enemy of the Hawaiians during that time.”
epwO5 TIL that all Shiba Inu alive today are descended from one single Shiba, "Ishi," born in 1930.
oBgVW TIL that there is a contagious dog tumor which spreads through sexual interaction with other dogs and those tumors can be traced back to a dog which lived 11 thousand years ago which means the living cells of this dog survived through other dogs.
6Er5Z TIL that in 1969, Yoko Ono directed the film Self-Portrait, which consisted of a single 42 minute shot of John Lennon’s semi erect penis.